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Newsletter #175

Welcome to the Elite Dangerous Newsletter, the place to find all the latest from the Elite Dangerous galaxy.

This week, we announced the Elite Dangerous Playstation 4 launch date that we know many of you have been anticipating. That's not the only good news this week though; we've also confirmed the winner of the CTRL+ALT+SPACE competition, along with some of the amazing entries of note.As always, you can hear the latest news and updates directly from the development team on our Forums, Twitter, Facebook, Community Homepage, and right here in the newsletter every week, and we're always eager to hear your feedback.

Both Elite Dangerous and the Horizons Season Pass will be available on the PlayStation store individually, or you can get them bundled together as the Commander Deluxe Edition – which includes the Commander Paint Pack!

We’re super excited and will have some fun community streams and giveaways planned around this time, so check in on the forums and our social channels regularly for more great news from the Elite galaxy.

On the stream this week Elite Dangerous Art Director Chris Gregory joined Ed to announce the winners of the CTRL+ALT+SPACE 2017 film competition. You can watch the VOD right now to see who comes out on top, and watch the 13 runners up that absolutely blew us away.

It brings us great pleasure to announce that the winner of the CTRL+ALT+SPACE 2017 film competition is Turjan Starstone, with his beautiful and emotive movie called 'Stardust'.We watched every film that was submitted to us, and it was incredibly difficult to pick a winner. We're constantly blown away by the amazing creations from our community, and can't wait to put on another competition just like this in future!

Below you can find the winner, Stardust, along with the runners up in no particular order.

REPORTS OF MYSTERIOUS ATTACKSReports have surfaced of mysterious attacks in the Maia system, where eyewitnesses claim to have found the remains of a number of Federal vessels. According to reports, the damage to the ships’ hulls was not consistent with any known form of weaponry, and observers claim to have seen the so-called unknown ships at the wreckage sites.

TROUBLE IN COLONIA

A number of unauthorised outposts have been detected in the Eol Prou Lw-L C8-215 System. A spokesperson for the Colonia Council confirmed these outposts are currently occupied by group of agitators. The Junkyard Dogs have therefore placed a kill order on all wanted ships operating in Colonia.

CANONN CAMPAIGN CONCLUDESA spokesperson for the Canonn Interstellar Research Group has announced that its starship-construction campaign has been enthusiastically received by the galactic community. Construction of the deep-space research vessel Gnosis is now underway.

ZEUS BUREAU APPEALThe Zeus system is to host a gathering of some of the galaxy's most influential people. With the event scheduled to take place next week, the Zeus Bureau has placed an open order for a range of luxury goods, promising to reward those who deliver these commodities to KatherineB in the Zeus system.

HAYLEY STAGES ANTI-WAR PROTESTFormer Federal president Jasmina Halsey held a public demonstration in the Alioth system yesterday in protest of the ongoing conflict between the Empire and the Federation. More than 30,000 people attended the event, which lasted for several hours and occupied one of the main public plazas in Nerah City on Argent’s Claim.

Former Federal president Jasmina Halsey held a public demonstration in the Alioth system yesterday in protest of the ongoing conflict between the Empire and the Federation. More than 30,000 people attended the event, which lasted for several hours and occupied one of the main public plazas in Nerah City on Argent’s Claim.

First the alliance take her shiny new megaship off her then to add insult to injury her name is misspelled in the news story about her big peace demonstration.

Former Federal president Jasmina Halsey held a public demonstration in the Alioth system yesterday in protest of the ongoing conflict between the Empire and the Federation. More than 30,000 people attended the event, which lasted for several hours and occupied one of the main public plazas in Nerah City on Argent’s Claim.

Alliance officials have reaction with a certain degree of surprise to the galactic wide news reporting on a minor protest held by the former Federation President. "Mrs Halsey is free to express her opinions and organize protests, as she is a free Alliance Citizen, but the attention this rather small gathering has generated seems out of proportion to the event, which didn't even cause minor traffic congestion"
Onlookers seemed mystified to the purpose. One local Aliothan said "Nobody likes war, but it is hard to see what she is trying to achieve with this other than her own pubicity. We are well aware of the cooperation between the Federation and Empire, and as a former president of the Federation, so is she". Another expressed concern: "I hope this doesn't mean she will provoke the attention of INRA, especially considering the information recently released by Salome's comrades. I'd prefer it if she found herself a quiet villa somewhere on Miller's Rock or something"

Damn! I've seen all of Turgan's vids and that was the best one yet. Excellent use of the new camera system and Cmdr creator features, and great writing and acting as usual. A well deserved win but all the vids were great. Good work Cmdrs!

This week's newsletter is definitely a huge improvement on the one from last week. Though I don't have a PS4, the official release date does make me very happy, & I love the news of Dolphin Paint-jobs & about the CTRL-ALT-SPACE competition winners (am I the only one who thinks that the Galnet we see in Frame Shift Zero is exactly the kind of Galnet we need in-game? ). Also, lots of intriguing news regarding the mysterious things going on in the galaxy!

Now lets hope that one of the next 2 newsletters features an official release date for 2.4 .

This week's newsletter is definitely a huge improvement on the one from last week. Though I don't have a PS4, the official release date does make me very happy, & I love the news of Dolphin Paint-jobs & about the CTRL-ALT-SPACE competition winners (am I the only one who thinks that the Galnet we see in Frame Shift Zero is exactly the kind of Galnet we need in-game? ). Also, lots of intriguing news regarding the mysterious things going on in the galaxy!

Now lets hope that one of the next 2 newsletters features an official release date for 2.4 .

There are always nice little things to take in newsletters, not many but always one or two